With "meaningful use" on the mind of every HIMSS10 attendee, Mark Leavitt, MD, CCHIT chair, presented at an EHR Certification Town Hall.
HIMSS Board Chair Barry Chaiken, MD, opened day one with a stirring speech encouraging the use of checklists to reduce medical error and urging technology vendors to make IT attractive. "We must create technology systems so appealing they make physicians want to leave their paper records behind," Chaiken said.
Attendees at the Federal Health Community Synergy sessions.
John Moore of Chilmark Research - a regular contributor to the Healthcare IT News Blog, was among the panelists at the HIMSS Social Media Center's "Meet the Bloggers" session.
Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint, holds a relic from mobile technology's past as he discusses the rise of smartphones in healthcare. Chaiken and Hesse in their Keynote addresses set the tone for a week of discussions of technology, patient care and multi-disciplinary collaboration within organizations.
